A Vision Of Resurrection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I had a dream The habitable earthA
Its continents and islands all were bareB
Of cities and of forests Naught remainedC
Of its old aspect and I only knewD
As men know things in dreams unknowing howE
That this was earth and that all men were deadF
On every side I saw the barren landG
Even to the distant sky's inclosing blueD
Thick pitted all with graves and all the gravesH
Save one were open not as newly dugI
But rather as by some internal forceJ
Riven for egress Tombs of stone were splitK
And wide agape and in their iron decayL
The massive mausoleums stood in halvesM
With mildewed linen all the ground was whiteN
Discarded shrouds upon memorial stonesO
Hung without motion in the soulless airB
While greatly marveling how this should beP
I heard or fancied that I heard a voiceQ
Low like an angel's delicately strongR
And sweet as musicS
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'Spirit ' it said 'beholdN
The burial place of universal ManT
A million years have rolled away since hereU
His sheeted multitudes save only someV
Whose dark misdeeds required a separateN
And individual arraignment roseW
To judgment at the trumpet's summoningX
And passed into the sky for their awardN
Leaving behind these perishable thingsY
Which yet preserved by miracle endureZ
Till all are up Then they and all of earthA
Rock hearted mountain and storm breasted seaP
River and wilderness and sites of deadN
And vanished capitals of men shall springX
To flame and naught shall be for evermoreA2
When all are risen that wonder will occurB2
'Twas but ten centuries ago the lastN
But one came forth a soul so black with sinC2
Against whose name so many crimes were setN
That only now his trial is at endN
But one remains '-
-
Straight as the voice was stilledN
That single rounded mound cracked lengthliwiseP
And one came forth in grave clothes For a spaceP
He stood and gazed about him with a smileD2
Superior then laying off his shroudN
Disclosed his two attenuated legsP
Which like parentheses bent outwardlyP
As by the weight of saintliness aboveE2
And so sprang upward and was lost to viewD
Noting his headstone overthrown I readN
'Sacred to memory of George K FitchF2
Deacon and Editor a holy manT
Who fell asleep in Jesus full of yearsP
And blessedness The dead in Christ rise first '-

Ambrose Bierce



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